I'd probably do my best to find a 3-unit place in Weeksville or Eastern Bushwick that will FHA for around ~900K and you can probably get enough to cashflow a tiny bit if you rent out the rooms in your unit.

Revenue is tiny on these small deals, but the cost of labor for the loan officer to QB the deal for a month for the lender eats away at any profit for the lender. 

Similarly there's plentiful quantity of bad tenants that know how to play games.

Quantity and deal discipline.

Definitely cannot trust the hype and must send out third-party inspectors.Quality over quantity applies very well here.

I hated it, hated those hours, but it put a few extra hundred in my pocket each month.For a time, I worked 2 jobs in addition to that paper route and lived in a tiny studio apartment for only a couple hundred a month (I'm sure you could find a similar price in Alabama now, my apartment was in So.

That's tiny.

Then, since it is a live in flip, the utility costs you had which would have been elsewhere anyways along with the fact that you paid down a tiny amount of principle in year one is just extra gravy on the deal.

I am looking for a nice east-side home to rent for me and my tiny family, spouse and small age son“......

I've been working on setting up a tiny home community because the market is so bananas right now.